$5,750
E. Howard Watch Co., Boston, USA, Series 8, No. 1066946, by Keystone, circa 1910.Very fine and very rare, 14 and 24K gold, hunting-cased, keyless, made for special order watch, accompanied by a nugget-link chain terminating with a large nugget. four-body, front and back covers entirely set with 24 carat nuggets, the front centered by five arm gold star, gold, hinged cuvette. white enamel, Breguet numerals, outer minute divisions with five-minute red Arabic markers, subsidiary sunk seconds. Blued steel, "Spade" hands. 10 size, nickel, "fausses côtes" decoration, straight line lever escapement, cut-bimetallic compensation balance with 14K gold screws, blued steel Breguet balance spring, 23 jewels, adjusted to 5 positions, cold,eat and isochronism, 14K gold cap jewel plates, nickel train, spring-loaded, micrometric regulator.Signed on the dial, case and movement.Diam. 46 mm. Notes This watch is an outstanding piece of memorabilia from the days of the Alaskan Gold Rush. The discovery of gold in the Klondike and in the territory of Alaska in the late 1800's resulted in the migration of not only prospectors, but merchants, all of whom saw economic prosperity in providing goods and services to those searching for gold.Mr. Schick was one such person. He opened a laundry and steam bath in the newly established town of Juneau and shortly thereafter a second establishment on the bank of the Chena River.Shick's laundry and steam-bath business proved quite successful. Having q
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2001-11-28
